Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Potamogeton pusillus
Potamogetonaceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Potamogeton pusillus L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 127 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Europae paludibus."
Ascherson, P.F.A. & Graebner, K.O.R.P.P. in Ascherson, P.F.A. & Graebner, K.O.R.P.P. (ed.) (27 August 1897), Synopsis der Mitteleuropaischen Flora 1(4): 344 [secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 227 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Potamogeton obtusifolius Mert. & W.D.J.Koch legitimate
Dandy, J.E. & Taylor (1938), Journal of Botany, British and Foreign: 92 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "We therefore take as lectotype of P. pusillus the larger flowering specimen, on the left of the sheet." [LINN number 175.1]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Potamogeton pusillum L. orth. var.
  • APC Comment: A widespread taxon recorded by P.F.A.Aschersen & P.Graebner, Synopsis der Mitteleuropaischen Flora 1(4): 344, but known to occur in Australia.